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Jennifer Lawrence first-time producer with 'Glass Castle'

By Jessica Herndon, Associated Press

Posted:
11/12/2013 01:44:43 PM MST

Updated:
11/12/2013 01:44:46 PM MST

American actress Jennifer Lawrence poses for photographers as she arrives on the red carpet for the World Premiere of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," on Monday Nov. 11, 2013, in Leicester Square, London. (Jon Furniss/Invision/AP)

Jennifer Lawrence will not only star in the upcoming film adaptation of Jeanette Walls' 2005 best-selling memoir “The Glass Castle,” the project will also mark her first time as a producer.

“I don't know if I will be any good, but I'm trying it,” Lawrence said of her new post in an interview with The Associated Press at a recent publicity event in Beverly Hills. “So far I am not sure if I am because I am very instinctual, but not very verbal. But producing is something that I have really wanted to do.”

The actress attached herself to the adaptation after her mother, Karen Lawrence, fell in love with Walls' story and suggested she read it.

“My mother is like the lucky charm with these kinds of things,” said the 23-year-old star of the upcoming “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” ”She read 'Winter's Bone' and 'Hunger Games' and when I read 'The Glass Castle' I thought it was amazing, so we found Gil Netter, the producer who had the rights to (the book). He and I started talking and now we are developing. We have a director and a writer and it's getting going.”

“The Glass Castle,” which spent more than 335 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, details Walls' poor and dysfunctional upbringing as she is raised by an eccentric artist mother and alcoholic father.

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The Lionsgate film will be directed by Destin Cretton, who wrote and directed this summer's well-received drama “Short Term 12.” The screenplay, which was originally written by Marti Noxon, is being rewritten by Cretton and Andrew Lanham. A production date for the movie has not yet been set.

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A team of Denver Post reporters began investigating Colorado's system of monitoring parolees after the shooting death in March of state corrections chief Tom Clements, allegedly by a parolee.

Through open-records requests, The Post identified and researched 33 cases since 2002 in which parolees in Colorado committed or are accused of murder. The Post reviewed prison and parole documents for these cases and also obtained state audits, internal reports and jail booking data. Reporters interviewed corrections officials, parole officers, parolees, experts and families of victims.

Here's a look at each day's story:

Day 1: Lax supervision over Colorado parolees has had deadly consequences. Thirty-three parolees were convicted or charged with 38 murders in the last decade - in some cases only weeks after being released from prison.

Day 2: The state's prison system is struggling to find a solution to prisoners released directly from their solitary cells to the streets. Half of the parolees who murdered spent time in solitary confinement.

Day 3: In jail and on parole, offenders often don't receive treatment for substance abuse or mental illness or participate in programs to help them adjust to life on the outside.

Day 4: As Colorado tries to lower one of the highest return-to-prison rates in the nation, parole officers are stuck in a tug-of-war that pits second chances against swift punishment.